bitterwood
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1. medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bitterwood tree, |
| definition | : | any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus simarouba, simarouba, |
| definition | : | type genus of Simaroubaceae; tropical American trees and shrubs having a pale soft wood and bitter bark (noun.plant) |
2. West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bitterwood tree, |
| definition | : | any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus picrasma, picrasma, |
| definition | : | small genus of deciduous trees of tropical America and Asia (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | jamaica quassia, |
| definition | : | similar to the extract from Quassia amara (noun.plant) |
3. handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bitterwood tree, |
| definition | : | any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus quassia, |
| definition | : | tropical trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and large scarlet flowers; bark is medicinal (noun.plant) |
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